Cisco announced that Terremark has launched its Infinistructure
utility-computing platform in Europe with Cisco virtualization technology
deployed on a Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network architecture.
Terremark has just completed the deployment of the new platform in its
facilities in Madrid and Amsterdam, which follows the recent launch of the
Infinistructure platform based on Cisco solutions in the United States.
"The successful collaboration between Terremark and Cisco has extended to
Europe, and the expansion of our Infinistructure platform will help to meet
the growing needs of our customers on both sides of the Atlantic," said Joost
Metten, Terremark's European chief executive officer. "Through working with
Cisco, Terremark can deliver fully managed IT infrastructure services that
our customers can rely on."
Terremark's Infinistructure platform is... (more)

Right after buying Linux e-mail server house Postpath for $215 million, Cisco
said it was buying the 50-man Denver-based Jabber Inc, a commercializer of
the eponymous open source IM project, for its collaboration portfolio.
Terms were not disclosed. Neither was the fact that Jabber’s an open source
play so it’s unclear how Cisco will handle Jabber’s open source business
model. Intel, France Telecom and Webb Interactive Service put $7.2 million in
the thing back in 2003 and Jabber is believed to have had revenues of $2.9
million last year. Webb started it in 2000 and said that given the
acquisition it expects to be able to make a cash distribution of
approximately 32 cents a share to its shareholders.
Cisco says the acquisition will let it embed presence and messaging “in the
network” and give users rich aggregation capabilities through both
on-premise and on-demand so... (more)

Global networking giant Cisco unveiled Unified Service Delivery (USD) last
week, following up on the company’s enthusuastically welcomed Unified
Computing System (UCS) hardware announcement back in March.
Taken together, these announcements shed light on the company’s strategy to
strengthen its hold over the data centre, and to offer solutions tailored
toward the evolving needs of organisations keen to capitalise upon Cloud
Computing’s promise; both inside the private data centre and in
interactions with remote resources elsewhere on the network.
I spoke with Wendy Mars, Cisco’s Director for Data Centres and UCS here in
Europe, and the result has just been released as a podcast.
We talk about UCS and USD, and explore some of the use cases emerging as beta
customers and Cisco itself put these technologies through their paces ahead
of a broader roll-out in the coming m... (more)

Cisco Wednesday came up with entry-level rack-mounted versions of its
high-end Unified Computing System (UCS) that it means to push into the
channel where it will piggyback on resellers that already sell other
people’s machines.
That mean it’ll be stepping on even more toes than it already has by
entering the server market to begin with.
Resisting the volume label, Cisco positions the new UCS C-Series boxes as
investment-protecting stepping stones to its bigger UCS B-Series that unite
compute, storage and networking in the name of unleashing virtualization. It
claims compute can’t be bought in isolation anymore.
Cisco claims architectural superiority for its UCS widgetry and promises
greater power and agility and lower TCO than the current crop of systems
vendors can deliver. Buy the vision buy the box.
Cisco research says UCS addresses a $20 billion slice of an ove... (more)

A month ago Voltaire joined the anti-Cisco front and sketched out its vision
of a Scale-Out Ethernet architecture supporting what it likes to think of as
"virtual mainframes" built out of industry-standard gear and making extensive
use of virtualization.
Monday it started describing its first Ethernet device, the new high-density,
Layer 2 core, 10 GigE switch that's key in building these data centers and
clouds.
Voltaire says the Vantage 8500 is the largest (15U) non-blocking 10 gigabit
Ethernet switch around and is months - if not more - ahead of any
non-blocking switches from Cisco, Juniper or 3Com.
We're talking a 12-slot 11.5 Tbps chassis with a peak slot capacity of 960
Gbps here.
Vantage is targeting Cisco's vaunted Nexus 7000 switches - which have so far
missed the non-blocking boat - with 3x more capacity and 20x less latency,
running at a third the power ... (more)

Well, look who Citrix has tied up with. Arista Networks where Sun co-founder
Andy Bechtolsheim retreated after he left Sun for the second time.
Bechtolsheim started Arista with his buddy, Stanford professor David
Cheriton; the two of them were the first investors in Google.
Anyway, Citrix and Arista, which does 10 gigabit Ethernet switches and has
started to chase the cloud, say they are working on cloud networking
solutions for large datacenter and cloud service provider environments.
They're going to test and integrate the Citrix NetScaler VPX virtual
appliance with Arista's 7000 series switch. They aim to deliver a cloud
networking solution married to wire-rate, high-density 10G switching with
proven L4-7 application delivery services.
Arista's platform is based on a new software architecture with self-healing
properties and live in-service software upgrade capabil... (more)

There are many cloud computing point solutions throughout a variety of
categories – calendaring, scheduling, contact management, and many others
focused around 3 main customer segments. Individual / Family Communities
Business / Corporate
While much of the functionality being delivered online is focused around
individuals communities in the form of collaborative and non-collaborative
communications, social and business networking, and infrastructure tools
(IaaS), my main interest is in the business / corporate segment. More
specifically, the small and medium business segment and the organizations
being formed as a result of cloud computing environments which leverage
software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) technology.
With that in mind we can look at limited number of business areas and see
what category of online tools are available for today’... (more)

I am delighted to announce the formation of the Cisco SP Mobility Community.
This community will bring together mobility experts to collaborate and
discuss technical and business challenges in the mobility space. If you are
not already a member, please check it out…here are some hot topics so far:
WiMAX vs. LTE: Which technology will “win” and why? Business models being
redefined The new iPhone: Good or Evil? Ask John Chambers Anything
(well…almost!)
... (more)

I came across this article published by CIOZone on July 20, 2009 - “IT
Spending Forecasts Improve, Cisco Popular”; and obviously, am pleased by
the positive results around Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS).
An impressive number - “77 percent of respondents in the UBS survey said
that they expected to buy or evaluate Cisco’s Unified Computing System…in
the next 18 months”; and that they see this system as being more likely to
succeed than the competition. This is great news, since the UCS forms the
foundational building block for the Unified Service Delivery solution and it
is a testament to our engineers for building such an innovative product.
... (more)

This first blog post of me will not be an indepth one nor will be an overview
but hopefully a few tidbits of what is happening in Asia and how that
actually influences the rest of the world. And I do have some insights
after spending 12 years in the mobile industry in Asia in various forms. I
was part of the team that sold the first gigabit router in Asia and the core
backbone network to China Mobile, that worked with Motorola to build
Linux-based mobile phones and operating systems to Sony Mylo and Sharp
Zaurus, advicing China Mobile and Hong Kong Telecom (aka PCCW) on mobile
strategies and way-toooo-often featured in conferences and media.
Japan was the first with 3G and will be the first with a number of commercial
4G networks (WiMax, LTE and various options of that). Koreans led by Samsung
and LGE pushing the limits of what can be done on cheaper and cheaper
d... (more)

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